noun:

• menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards - Ōsaka dialect ➜ めんこ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to reveal one's upbringing (through one's words, actions, etc.); to betray one's origin; to give oneself away ➜ お里・親の顔が見たい

noun:

• Storr's pygmy monitor (Varanus storri, species of small carnivorous monitor lizard native to Australia); Storr's goanna; Storr's monitor

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to employ one's secret weapon; to play one's trump card; to use the ace up one's sleeve - idiom

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to understand each other well; to call forth a response in another's heart; to relate to

noun:

• flowers that bloom in the heavens; paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image - Buddhism term

noun:

• tying a person's limbs to two or four bulls and making them run in different directions (Warring States-era death penalty)

noun:

• men's things; menswear; men's wear

~の noun:

• men's; for men

noun / ~の noun:

• same period; corresponding period
• same year (of graduation, entering a company, etc.); contemporary; classmate

noun / ~する noun:

• synchronization; synchronism

noun:

• star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)
• offender; perpetrator - police slang - slang
• star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot
• circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star)
• bullseye
• one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate ➜ 九星
• small dot; spot
• point; score - Sumo term

noun:

• fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near ➜ 擦り半
• sound as produced by this alarm

noun:

• fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near ➜ 擦り半鐘
• sound as produced by this alarm

noun:

• western direction
• Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise) ［さいほう］ - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 西方浄土
• western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo) ［にしがた］ - Martial Arts term

noun:

• conduct; behaviour
• movements; gesture; one's carriage
• performance (on stage, etc.); dance; acting
• dance (in kabuki); dance play - abbreviation ➜ 所作事

noun:

• international marriage which is recognized in only one party's country (e.g. same-sex marriage, polygamy, underage marriage)

noun:

• children's haircut having hair in the rear that reaches the nape of the neck - archaism

noun:

• this and that; such and such

expression:

• aside from this; aside from these

noun:

• prostitution in which anal sex services are provided by several women in rotation (esp. in "pink salons") - play on 花びら回転 ➜ 花びら回転・ピンクサロン

expression:

• to that extent ➜ 其れだけ
• accordingly; that being the case; because of that; this means that ...
• that state; that condition

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
• to run (between); to operate (between); to connect - of public transport
• to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
• to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
• to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
• to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
• to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
• to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
• to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
• to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
• to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
• to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
• to be well-informed; to be wise - archaism

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly - after the -masu stem of a verb

expression / adverb:

• by choice; of one's own free will; on one's own initiative; off one's own bat

expression / ichidan verb:

• to throw one's weight around; to exercise one's authority; to make one's presence felt

noun:

• one's own ground; one's own position; one's own area of the field (soccer, rugby, etc.)

noun:

• one's official name; one's registered name; one's name as it appears on the family register ➜ 戸籍